Stakeholders Identification of Participatory Public Policy Formulation Process: A Case Study of Kho Hong Hill at Hat Yai District in Songkhla Province

Abstract

Stakeholders are absolutely significant for public policy formulation because they are the ones affected by operational activities or projects based on the policy. This research study aims to develop a stakeholder selection process and relate it out in a case study of Kho Hong Hill (KHH) public policy formulation through reviews of literature and related research works, covering conventional methods. Then the synthesized methods were tried out. Its findings present that most policy formulation processes did not really emphasize the stakeholders. Participatory operation mostly focuses just only on stakeholder classification; however, there might not be real selection in the group to see who are directly related to problems. As a result, the researcher developed clear participatory public policy formulation process; stakeholder selection methods consisting of three steps: specifying stakeholder, specifying scope of stakeholder population and selecting stakeholders.